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The CEO of Microsoft was “alarmed” about explicit fakes of Taylor <mark>Swift</mark> back\nat the beginning of 2024\n[15]\nand that societies should have “guardrails” but … ","reading_minutes":14},{"id":"2dd02718-4a30-4469-b05a-9e5dcb3fef67","slug":"s16e18-generative-people-personalities-content","subject":"s16e18: Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version)","title":"Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version)","publish_date":"2023-10-27T23:29:53.491758+00:00","year":2023,"month":10,"season":16,"episode":18,"episode_label":"s16e18","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s16e18-generative-people-personalities-content/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1058,"context":" … Apparently Taylor <mark>Swift</mark> is a big deal!\n\nSo I wonder: what's the infrastructure required to support the release of a new Taylor <mark>Swift</mark> album?\n\nHow many copies … ","reading_minutes":5},{"id":"80669fdc-c4da-46a1-b7a6-89947a4f5f3d","slug":"s16e07-it-sounds-like-youre-jealous-scale","subject":"s16e07: It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful","title":"It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful","publish_date":"2023-10-03T19:28:11.040721+00:00","year":2023,"month":10,"season":16,"episode":7,"episode_label":"s16e07","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s16e07-it-sounds-like-youre-jealous-scale/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2615,"context":" … Now it's much easier to find a person, thanks to -- like Bender points out above -- technologies like automated classification, to the extent that a single Taylor <mark>Swift</mark> … ","reading_minutes":13},{"id":"0e79d709-a4b3-48db-b8eb-626414fb64c0","slug":"s08e21-an-amateur-with-opinions","subject":"s08e21: An amateur with opinions","title":"An amateur with opinions","publish_date":"2020-10-17T23:26:08.214000+00:00","year":2020,"month":10,"season":8,"episode":21,"episode_label":"s08e21","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s08e21-an-amateur-with-opinions/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2470,"context":" … Eating your extra children (this is <mark>Swift</mark>’s character’s “modest proposal”) would be a bad efficiency.”\nYes, right, I’m totally with you. 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